Teething troubles for outsourced subbing work will not halt its progress

The Mirror Group is outsourcing the subbing operations for its three titles to the Press Association's Yorkshire offices. It is currently having what it politely calls "teething troubles."

But there are other groups, notably the Dublin-based Independent News & Media, that have survived early problems to show that outsourcing can not only work, but work well.

That reality may well upset subs, including many of my former colleagues (and critics). But times have changed and are changing, as I record in my London Evening Standard column today. Outsourcing is here to stay.